Jennifer Lawrence: Best Actress At Academy Awards Announced | The Huffington Post Jennifer Lawrence: Best Actress At Academy Awards Announced 02/24/2013 11:45 pm ET | Updated Feb 27, 2013 530 Jennifer Lawrence took home the Oscar for Best Actress at the 2013 Academy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles. Lawrence won for her role in "Silver Linings Playbook." Also nominated in the category were Emmanuelle Riva ("Amour"), Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty"), Quvenzhane Wallis ("Beasts of the Southern Wild") and Naomi Watts ("The Impossible"). Many observers believed the Best Actress race was down to Lawrence and Riva going into Sunday, with Chastain a distant third. Lawrence won Best Actress at the Screen Actors' Guild Awards and the Golden Globes, but Riva won at the BAFTAs. Riva, 86, and Wallis, 9, are the oldest and youngest Oscar nominees in the category's history, respectively. "You guys are just standing up because you feel bad that I fell," said Lawrence, when accepting the award from Jean Dujardin, who presented.

Meryl Streep won the 2012 Best Actress award for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in "Iron Lady." The Oscars are voted on by members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which separates the Academy Awards from other award shows, which are either voted on by the press (Critic's Choice Awards, the Golden Globes) or members of a specific profession (Screen Actors Guild Awards, Directors Guild Awards and Writers Guild Awards). Seth MacFarlane hosted this year's telecast. James Bond, a "Chicago" reunion, a "Les Miserables" medley, performances by Adele and Barbra Streisand and even Ted were all a part of this year's program and reflected the producers' plan to "trim the fat" from what has been sometimes been criticized as a painfully long and slow ritual. More information about winners, performances and more can be found in the live blog below the following gallery. Oscar Nominees 2013 Jennifer Lawrence wins best actress Oscars 2013 - YouTube Jennifer Lawrence wins best actress Oscars 2013 Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content.

The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Feb 24, 2013 Jennifer Lawrence, winner of best actress for her role in "Silver linings playbook" talks about what went through her mind when she tripped going on stage to accept her award. Category Oscar-winning, blockbuster-fronting Jennifer Lawrence seems to have the odds ever in her favor – EW.com Pinterest Jeff Vespa/WireImage Jennifer Lawrence didn’t just win the Oscar for Best Actress last month. She basically won the whole Oscars. (Apologies to Ben Affleck.) She charmed late-night hosts — and Academy voters — with a disarming blend of bawdy humor and compulsive oversharing in the weeks before the ceremony. She rocked the red carpets with a variety of gorgeous gowns . More importantly, she was the only nominee who arrived at the Dolby Theatre currently fronting a $400 million blockbuster franchise.

Certainly, she was wonderful and deserving of the Academy Award for her performance as a dispirited young widow in The Silver Linings Playbook, but as she accepted the Oscar, there was also a palpable recognition that she is The Future: a young, beautiful indie-film queen who can also carry and sell an action franchise. At only 22, with an Oscar and central roles in The Hunger Games and X-Men, Lawrence appears to be the right actress in the right movies at the right time. “Everyone wants to work with her, whether it’s another actor or actress or a director or a studio,” says David Glasser, COO of The Weinstein Company, which distributed Silver Linings. “I think everybody right now wants to find that great Jennifer Lawrence Project.” After auditioning and losing the role of Twilight’s Bella to Kristen Stewart, the first great Jennifer Lawrence Project was Winter’s Bone , the gritty 2010 indie in which Lawrence played a tough Ozark teen looking after her poverty-stricken younger siblings, no thanks to her MIA dad and mentally ill mom. Appearing in virtually every scene, she dazzled critics and was nominated for her first Oscar.

“There was something about her [audition] and the way she was able to convey having the burden of this family on her shoulders. It’s not even something that you can really act,” says Paul Schnee, who along with Kerry Barden, cast that Sundance film. “Knowing the demands of the role, I was [like], ‘This is the girl! This is the girl!’” Most everyone who has ever worked with Lawrence seems to have a version of that “This is the girl!” moment. When Lionsgate announced plans to adapt Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy, Lawrence was an immediate contender for its starring role, in part due to Katniss Everdeen’s similarities to her independent, backwoods character from Winter’s Bone. But Gary Ross (Seabiscuit), who landed the plum assignment to script and direct The Hunger Games, hadn’t yet seen her in that movie. His epiphany came when he spent three days writing voiceover for Jodie Foster’s movie The Beaver, in which Lawrence played Anton Yelchin’s girlfriend.

“Just looking at the film over and over again, I just kept saying, ‘Who’s this actress?’ I just couldn’t believe the talent,” says Ross, who’s called casting Lawrence as Katniss the easiest movie decision he ever made . “It wasn’t even like a casting quote choice. I honestly felt lucky that an actress this good existed at that moment for that film. That’s how I felt. I remember saying to Lionsgate when we were casting, ‘Look, this comes along once every 10 years.’ Someone walks in the door with that kind of massive talent, it knocks you back in your chair.” Action movies have historically been a man’s world, and Hollywood’s most successful actresses, like Julia Roberts, settled for carving out their dominion in the most lucrative genre available to their gender: romantic comedies. Twenty years ago, even when Jodie Foster stood on a similar pedestal of arthouse and multiplex success right after Silence of the Lambs, you might have been tossed out of the studio suite for pitching a $100 million franchise built around a female protagonist (Sigourney Weaver in the Alien movies was among very few exceptions).

But there’s been a shift in the culture and hardly anyone blinked in 2010 when Angelina Jolie — already Lara Croft and Mrs. Smith — successfully delivered Salt, an action thriller initially conceived for Tom Cruise. Today’s action-movie heroines are no longer damsels in distress. They’re tough (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), brave (Brave), and as lethal with a weapon as their male counterparts (Snow White and the Huntsman). When Lawrence was cast as Katniss in 2011, she became the face not only of Collins’ dystopian-future Joan of Arc, but the new face of real girl-power at the box office. Hunger Games opened like a superhero, with a $152.5 million weekend, and went on to gross more than any movie of 2012 except The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises. But Ross wasn’t the first one to leverage Lawrence’s talent for a huge popcorn spectacular. X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn cast her to play a younger version of Mystique, the blue-skinned mutant played by Rebecca Romijn in the original films, for his 2011 preboot.

Her supporting character took a backseat to mutant frenemies played by James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, but the actress made an immediate impression on First Class producer Bryan Singer, who’s directing the sequel, Days of Future Past. “There was a sequence they were doing with James and Mike, and I noticed that she had no trouble speaking her mind, in a fun way,” laughs Singer. “She and Matthew sort of had a back and forth about what was working and what wasn’t, and it just sort of struck me that of all the actors standing on the platform, she was among the youngest and yet she was able to be the most vocal.” For anyone’s who’s chuckled through one of Lawrence’s freewheeling, b.s.-free interviews where she jokes about her breasts , pretends to fart , or playfully jousts with Jack Nicholson, such a tale is hardly difficult to imagine. “I don’t think Jennifer is intimidated by anything or anybody,” says Ross. “I’d be amazed if she ever had been. She’s one of the more confident people I’ve ever met in my life, but it’s earned.

She has the talent to back it up.” Jennifer Lawrence Wins Best Actress: 2013 Oscars - YouTube Jennifer Lawrence Wins Best Actress: 2013 Oscars Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Mar 4, 2013 Jean Dujardin presenting Jennifer Lawrence with the Oscar® for Best Actress for her performance in "Silver Linings Playbook" at the 2013 Oscars®. For more Oscars videos visit Category Jennifer Lawrence | Know Your Meme Know Your Meme Dancing Brazilian Dog Inspires Remixes Also Trending: Updated Jun 15, 2015 at 11:35PM EDT by Brad . Added Mar 01, 2013 at 10:19PM EST by amanda b. . Like us on Facebook! PROTIP: Press 'i' to view the image gallery, 'v' to view the video gallery, or 'r' to view a random entry.

This submission is currently being researched & evaluated! You can help confirm this entry by contributing facts, media, and other evidence of notability and mutation. Status Wikipedia About Jennifer Lawrence is an award-winning American actress best known for her starring role as Katniss Everdeen in the 2012 sci-fi action film adaptation of The Hunger Games . Online, her awkward interviews and seemingly down-to-earth personality have earned her a large fanbase on the social networking site Tumblr . Online History Jennifer Lawrence created her personal website [3] in April 2007, followed by the launch of her first Facebook fan page [4] in 2008, which has accrued more than 724,000 fans as of March 2013. The first single topic Tumblr blog dedicated to the actress Love Jennifer Lawrence [5] (shown below) was launched in April 2011, which remains active with a monthly average output of 118 posts as of March 2013. Later in 2011, a GIF-only blog dedicated to Lawrence [6] launched, posting about 35 posts per month as of March 2013.

Between February and March 2012, dozens of other fan blogs were launched on Tumblr, including F Yeah Jennifer Lawrence [7] , Lawrence Nation [8] , Fashion of Jennifer Lawrence [9] and Jennifer Lawrence Daily [10] , which coincided with the U.S. release of the film The Hunger Games. Also in March 2012, a subreddit [11] devoted to the actress was created, gaining more than 12,000 subscribers over the span of a year. Additional discussion threads and media about the actress can be found on Buzzfeed [37] , Complex [38] , Imgur [39] , Reddit [26] , Tumblr [27] , Pinterest [28] as well as on Twitter [29] , where she was tweeted about more than 1 million times between February and March 2013. [20] Reputation Jennifer Lawrence is known for her quirky and honest interview responses, often expressing her love for food (shown below) and casually hanging out at home.

In a March 2012 interview with Glamour [13] , Lawrence noted that she hates people who claim they like to exercise, saying “I want to punch people who say that in the face.” In the same interview, Lawrence said she hated when actors complain, as they get to do what they love and then rest for months at a time without having to worry about money. The same month, she told Moviefone [15] she was concerned that viewers would make fun of the “weird” way she runs. She shared more relatable sentiments in a December 2012 interview with Marie Claire South Africa, [14] in which she raved about watching reality television and eating junk food. 2013 Academy Awards Fall At the 2013 Academy Awards held on February 24th, 2013, Jennifer Lawrence won the Best Actress award for her performance in the 2012 romantic comedy “Silver Linings Playbook.” As she was walking up the stairs to the stage to accept the award, she tripped on her floor-length Dior Haute Couture dress, falling down.

The moment was immediately shared on Tumblr [18] as well as celebrity gossip blogs Just Jared [16] and Perez Hilton. [17] Backstage, Lawrence cited the length of her dress as the reason for her fall. The evening of the awards, there were nearly 50,000 mentions of “Jennifer Lawrence fall” on Twitter. [25] Video and GIFs of the event spread across the web as the story was featured on CNN [19] , Buzzfeed [20] , the Huffington Post [21] and EW PopWatch [22] , among others. Several sites also collected image macros created with a still image of her fall (shown below) including Mashable [23] and the International Business Times. [24] Following her 2013 Oscars appearance, Jezebel [12] compiled a list of reasons why many fans consider Lawrence an accessible celebrity they could theoretically be best friends with, noting her continued references to food as well as her penchant for making strange faces and not being afraid to speak her mind candidly on camera.

2014 Golden Globes Dress On January 12th, 2014, Jennifer Lawrence made her appearance at the Golden Globes’ red carpet ceremony in a white sleeveless Dior dress accented by two black stripes at the waist and hips. [40] Almost immediately, fans of the actress on Tumblr pointed out a resemblance between Lawrence’s dress and the sail-and-rope dress fashioned and worn by Ariel from the 1989 Disney film The Little Mermaid, which led the MTV to tweet a side-by-side comparison of the two dresses (shown below). Later that evening, MTV Teen Wolf actor Colton Hayes uploaded an Instagram [41] of himself wrapped in a bed sheet and mimicking Lawrence’s aggressive face that was photographed earlier during the ceremony, inspiring many others to imitate the pose in a makeshift dress fashioned out of sheets. On the following day, the phenomenon was dubbed “Lawrencing” by Buzzfeed and numerous other news media outlets. [42] Personal Life Jennifer Lawrence was born on August 15th, 1990 in Louisville Kentucky. At 14 years old, she convinced her mother to move to Manhattan with her to find a talent agent.

[31] Her first gig was on the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show [32] (shown below, left), where she played the title character’s teenage daughter. In 2008, she landed her first leading film role in The Poker House [33] , winning an Outstanding Performance Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Two years later, she earned the lead role in the Sundance award-winning independent drama film Winter’s Bone [34] (shown below, center), leading to a Best Actress award nomination at the 2011 Academy Awards. In March 2011, she was offered the lead role of Katniss Everdeen (shown below, right) in the film adaptation of The Hunger Games. Though Lawrence initially hesitated over the role due to concerns about the size of the film [35] , it went on to make $152.5 million in three days, making it the highest-grossing action film with a female lead.

[36] Search Interest Oscars 2013: Ceremony and winners - BBC News BBC News Oscars 2013: Ceremony and winners 25 February 2013 Close share panel Pictures of the winners, losers, hosts and performers at the 2013 Oscars ceremony. Actor, producer and director Ben Affleck accepts the night's main prize for his Iranian-set rescue thriller, Argo. It's the first film to win best picture without a concurrent nomination for best director since 1989's Driving Miss Daisy. Actress Jennifer Lawrence tripped up the stairs as she went to accept the leading actress for her role in Silver Linings Playbook. As she received a standing ovation, the 22-year-old joked: "You guys are just standing up because I fell and you feel bad". Her first Oscar comes for playing Tiffany Maxwell, a women who struggles with mental health problems after her husband dies. Daniel Day-Lewis was presented his Oscar by Meryl Streep. He made Academy Award history by becoming the only actor to have won the leading actor prize three times. His latest victory came for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's historical drama.

Adele thanked her "man," and added "I love you", to boyfriend Simon Konecki when she accepted her Oscar for original song for Skyfall. Anne Hathaway celebrated with Amy Adams, despite beating her in the supporting actress category. The 30-year-old won for her role as Fantine in Les Miserables. "It's come true," she said as she accepted the trophy. The recipients of the main acting prizes posed together backstage in height order. L-R: Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, Christoph Waltz. Lawrence, 22, is the second-youngest woman to win best actress, behind Marlee Matlin, who was 21 when she won for Children of a Lesser God. Ang Lee picked up his second Oscar, as he was named best director for magical shipwreck fable Life Of Pi. He last won in 2005 for Brokeback Mountain. A total of 19 directors have won the honour multiple times. Host Seth Macfarlane was also nominated in the original song category, for Everybody Needs A Best Friend from his hit comedy Ted, but he lost to Adele, who took the prize for Bond theme Skyfall.

Adele performed her Oscar nominated single Skyfall with a choir and orchestra shortly before she won her award, and fought back tears on stage. Actor Christoph Waltz thanked the rest of the Django Unchained cast during his acceptance speech for supporting actor. He also offered thanks to his character and ``to his creator and the creator of his awe-inspiring world, Quentin Tarantino.'' Actress Catherine Zeta Jones revived her role as Velma Kelly as she performed All That Jazz from Chicago, the main winner at the Oscars in 2003. The cast of Les Miserables performed Suddenly from the film as part of a medley of songs from the movies. Barbra Streisand paid tribute to composer Marvin Hamlisch with a performance of The Way We Were - which he wrote for her to sing in the 1973 film of the same name. Director Quentin Tarantino took home the original screenplay award for Django Unchained. He told the audience "I have to cast the right people to make those characters come alive, and boy did I do it.

Thank you so much guys." Host Seth Macfarlane performed a song and dance number with Channing Tatum and Charlize Theron, and closed the night duetting with actress Kristin Chenoweth in a song dedicated to all the nominees who failed to win an Oscar. Jack Nicholson presented the best picture prize to Ben Affleck with the help of the first lady, Michelle Obama, who announced the winner live from the White House. Affleck said to his wife Jennifer Garner: "I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It is work, but it's the best kind of work." Ang Lee thanked the "movie god" and a "wonderful cast" in his acceptance speech. A stage hand had to help Adele off stage after she finished her performance because she had kicked off her sparkly Louboutin platforms. She said "I'd pick them up but I can't bend over,'' motioning toward her tight beaded dress.

Jennifer Lawrence - Biography - IMDb Jennifer Lawrence Biography Showing all 120 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (55) | Personal Quotes (47) | Salary (11) Overview (4) 5' 9" (1.75 m) Mini Bio (1) Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born on August 15, 1990 in Louisville, Kentucky, to Karen (Koch), who manages a children's camp, and Gary Lawrence, who works in construction. She has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine, and has English, as well as some German, Irish, and Scottish, ancestry. Her career began when she traveled to Manhattan at the age of 14. After conducting her first cold read, agents told her mother that "it was the best cold read by a 14- year-old they had ever heard", and tried to convince her stage mother that she needed to spend the summer in Manhattan. After leaving the agency, Jen was spotted by an agent in the midst of shooting an H&M ad and asked to take her picture.

The next day, that agent followed up with her and invited her to the studio for a cold read audition. Again, the agents were highly impressed and strongly urged her mother to allow her to spend the summer in New York City. As fate would have it, she did, and subsequently appeared in commercials such as MTV's "My Super Sweet 16" and played a role in the movie, The Devil You Know (2013). Shortly thereafter, her career forced her and her family to move to Los Angeles, where she was cast in the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (2007), and in smaller movies like The Poker House (2008) and The Burning Plain (2008). Her big break came when she played Ree in Winter's Bone (2010), which landed her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. Shortly thereafter, she secured the role of Mystique in franchise reboot X-Men: First Class (2011), which went on to be a hit in Summer 2011. Around this time, Lawrence scored the role of a lifetime when she was cast as Katniss Everdeen in the big-screen adaptation of literary sensation The Hunger Games (2012).

That went on to become one of the highest-grossing movies ever with over $407 million at the domestic box office, and instantly propelled Lawrence to the A-list among young actors/actresses. Three Hunger Games sequels are scheduled for release in November 2013, 2014, and 2015, with Lawrence reprising her role at least for the first one ( The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)). In 2012 the romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook earned her the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Satellite Award and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress, among other accolades, making her the youngest person ever to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actress and the second-youngest Best Actress winner. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Ben Lawrence Trade Mark (2) Witty sense of humor Trivia (55) For her role in Winter's Bone (2010), she learned to skin squirrels, chop wood, and fight. Plays guitar. Lawrence graduated from high school two years early in order to begin acting.

Lawrence was discovered by a photographer while visiting New York with her mother in 2005, which led to her landing an agent. Is the third youngest Oscar nominee for best actress in a leading role, at age 20 years, 163 days. Only Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), at age 9 years, 135 days, and Keisha Castle-Hughes for Whale Rider (2002), at age 13 years, 309 days, were younger, at the date of nominations announcement. She's a huge fan of Jeff Bridges , and got the chance to meet him at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con. Lawrence approached him, not realizing he was in the middle of an interview with Entertainment Tonight (1981), and hurried away. Bridges noticed and immediately called her back. The reporter then handed a star-struck Lawrence the microphone and invited her to take over the interview. Has appeared in two Sundance Grand Jury Prize winners in a row: Winter's Bone (2010) and Like Crazy (2011).

Named one of People magazine's Most Beautiful People in the World (2011). Named one of Variety magazine's Top Ten Actors to Watch (2010). Ranked #10 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2011 list. Ranked #47 in Ask men's top 99 "most desirable" women of 2012. Voted by her class as "Most Talkative". Good friends with Josh Hutcherson , her co-star from The Hunger Games (2012). They are both Kentucky natives. Named as having the "Sexiest eyes" by Victoria's Secret What Is Sexy list (2012). Her father had a concrete construction firm, Lawrence & Associates, and her mother runs a children's camp. For her role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games (2012), she worked out twice a day and practiced archery. She has portrayed the daughter of Paula Malcomson twice - in a 2007 episode of the television series Cold Case: A Dollar, a Dream (2007) and in The Hunger Games (2012).

(November 30, 2012) Named "Entertainer of the Year", along with Ben Affleck , by Entertainment Weekly. Is a natural blonde. She dyed her hair brown for her role in The Hunger Games (2012). Ranked #1 in Ask men's top 99 "most desirable" famous women of 2013 list. Brought her parents as her date to the 70th Golden Globe Awards after breaking up with her boyfriend Nicholas Hoult . Became the second youngest recipient of the Best Actress Oscar upon winning the award for Silver Linings Playbook (2012) on February 24, 2013 (age 22); the youngest recipient is Marlee Matlin , who won for Children of a Lesser God (1986) on March 30, 1987 (age 21). By age 23, she became the youngest actress to be nominated for three Oscars, including two of them for leading role, one of which she won. Is good friends with Emma Stone . Is the third Oscar-winning Actress to appear in the X-Men films, the others being Anna Paquin and Halle Berry .

All three of them will appear together in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). Named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World (2013). She has English, German, Irish, Scottish, and remote French ancestry. Universal and Imagine announced in fall 2013 that she will be cast to play the role of Cathy Ames in an eventual remake of the movie East of Eden (1955), itself based on the classic 1952 novel by John Steinbeck . The remake will be directed by The Hunger Games (2012) mastermind Gary Ross , and will consist of two parts and two movies. Her role will be featured in the first film. Her love of Doritos chips caused her to stain several dresses while on the set of American Hustle (2013), nearly ruining them in the process. The wardrobe department solved this problem by creating a number of identical dresses for her to use throughout the production so she would always have a clean one to wear. The longest she has gone without an Oscar nomination is the two years between Winter's Bone (2010) and Silver Linings Playbook (2012).

Was the 141st actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook (2012) at The 85th Annual Academy Awards (2013) on February 24, 2013. Ranked #5 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2014 list. On the set of The Hunger Games (2012), she showed up to set a couple times with the same blood and scar makeup from the day before. Because of this, Elizabeth Banks gave her the nickname Katpiss Neverclean. Said in an interview that since she and The Hunger Games (2012) co-star Josh Hutcherson are such good friends, she decided to buy a house down the street from him. Was in on-off relationship with Nicholas Hoult from 2011 to 2014. Was in a relationship with Chris Martin from June to October 2014. Her favorite colors are blue and gold. Closed 2014 as the highest-grossing actor of the year in Hollywood, her movies having grossed over $1.4 billion worldwide at the box office (Forbes magazine).

Was among the people affected by the hack of private pictures of various celebrities, mostly women, and with many containing nudity, which were posted on the website 4chan and where later distributed by other Internet networks. The event was nicknamed "The Fappening" by the media. The hack started whole new discussions about privacy in the Internet age as well as people unfairly and unnecessarily criticizing the victims for taking the pictures in the first place and putting them on their computer devices. In an interview with Vogue magazine in 2014, Lawrence commented on the hacks for the first time: "It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime [...] It is a sexual violation. It's disgusting. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change.". She gave her Oscar to her parents, who keep it in their home in Louisville, Kentucky, because she felt "odd" having it in her own house. Auditioned for the role of Bella Swan in Twilight (2008), but lost to Kristen Stewart . Is one of 14 actresses to have won both the Best Actress Academy Award and the Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe for the same performance; hers being for Silver Linings Playbook (2012).

The others, in chronological order, are: Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday (1950), Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (1964), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class (1973), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Cher for Moonstruck (1987), Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Helen Hunt for As Good as It Gets (1997), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), and Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose (2007). She filmed a cameo as Fraida Felcher in a flashback of the sequel Dumb and Dumber To (2014), but she later requested the cameo be pulled. When she first started playing Mystique in X-Men: First Class (2011), she wore full-body prosthetics which she found uncomfortable.

She got to where a special body suit in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) which she found more comforting to wear. Revealed during an appearance on Watch What Happens: Live (2009) in December 2015, that she has kissed her co-star Liam Hemsworth off-camera. She also admitted in the same interview to smoking pot with her brother before attending The Oscars. When asked to gain weight for her role as Tiffany Maxwell in Silver Lining Playbook, after slimming down to play Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger games, her response was "Hell ya!". She and Jeremy Renner are fifth cousins, once removed. They share an ancestor in Kentucky, farmer Robert Tague, who is Lawrence's fifth great-grandfather, while he's Renner's fourth. Jennifer Lawrence bares a physical resemblance to Egyptian actress Zubaida Tharwat. Is really good friends with Amy Schumer . Has gained a large fan base in China since her breakthrough performance in Winter's Bone, Chinese net citizens now refer to her with the nick name "Da Biao Jie", which reads like "Big (female) Cousin" which would give a cordial, intimate feeling of a girl next door.

However as it is explained by online encyclopedia and forums, because her name Lawrence is similar to famous brand watch "Laureus", some fans come up the idea of a shorter, catchy and intimate nick name to do with such similarity, thus nick-naming her "Big Watch Sister" (Big in Chinese reads "Da", Watch reads "Biao", and sister reads "Jie", thus "Da Biao Jie"). On a promotional tour to China for Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 2, she mentioned being confused and not totally impressed with this nick name in an interview. As a young person, she wanted to be a doctor. Is at her most comfortable simply being a homebody, either alone, or entertaining close friends. Counts Terms of Endearment (1983) and Cool Runnings (1993) among her favorite films. Personal Quotes (47) [on auditions and meetings]: The miserable ones are the ones where all the girls auditioning are in the same room. There's no talking in those rooms. I've tried. Yesterday, I had to do an interview. I was in a horrible mood. I couldn't think of basic words.

I could see my publicist in the background, mouthing things to say. They want you to be likable all the time, and I'm just not. I'm excited to be seen as sexy. But not slutty. Where are the Robert Redford s and Paul Newman s of my age group? I love James Franco , but where's the next James Franco? Where are the hunks who can act? There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others. I want to build myself. ... I have this feeling of protectiveness over characters I want to play. I worry about them - if someone else gets the part, I'm afraid they won't do it right; they'll make the character a victim or they'll make her a villain or they'll just get it wrong somehow. ... When I get like that, anything's possible. [on her role in Winter's Bone (2010)]: I'd have walked on hot coals to get the part. I thought it was the best female role I'd read - ever. I was so impressed by Ree's tenacity and that she didn't take no for an answer.

For the audition, I had to fly on the redeye to New York and be as ugly as possible. I didn't wash my hair for a week, I had no makeup on. I looked beat up in there. I think I had icicles hanging from my eyebrows. When I first got to New York, my feet hit the sidewalk and you'd have thought I was born and raised there. I took over that town. None of my friends took me seriously. I came home and announced, "I'm going to move to New York," and they were like "Okay." Then when I did, they kept waiting for me to fail and come back. But I knew I wouldn't. I was like "I'll show you.". I never felt like I completely, 100% understood something so well as acting. I'd like to direct at some point. But I don't know because 10 years ago I would have never imagined that I'd be here. So in 10 years from now, I might be running a rodeo. [on being a sudden sex symbol]: It feels weird. But [it's] not bad at all. I don't really diet or anything.

I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses looking like birds... I'd rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life, than look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in real life. Winter's Bone (2010) wasn't a fun, easy movie to make by any means. But I didn't do it to have fun. I like when things are hard; I'm very competitive. If something seems difficult or impossible, it interests me. [on not wanting to be famous] I look at Kristen Stewart now and I think, "I'd never want to be that famous." I can't imagine how I'd feel if all of a sudden my life was pandemonium. I'm doing what I love, and then I get months and months of rest. I have a lot of money for a 21-year-old. I can't stand it when actors complain. I hate saying, "I like exercising." I want to punch people who say that in the face. But it's nice being in shape for a movie, because they basically do it all for you. It's like "Here's your trainer.

This is what you can eat." I don't diet. I do exercise! But I don't diet. You can't work when you're hungry, you know? [on being asked if The Hunger Games (2012) transitioned her too quickly into stardom]: I think about this all the time. But when you get a promotion at your job, you don't go "That was too fast. Can I stay in the mailroom a while longer?". You take it. [on posing in an Esquire magazine photo shoot to try and help shake up her public image] A lot of people said, "Oh, now we have a great actress come along and she's showing her boobs." But that's exactly what I had to do so I could keep working. Honestly, that photo shoot is what helped me get X-Men [ X-Men: First Class (2011)]. There's just no imagination in Hollywood. I wanted to show people Winter's Bone (2010) for the performance, but it ended up having the opposite effect. People were like "No, she's not feminine, she's not sexual.".

[on referring to the characters she has played in Winter's Bone (2010) and The Hunger Games (2012)] I don't know what it is with me and maternal wilderness girls, I just love 'em. Even before Winter's Bone, the first movie I ever did, The Poker House (2008), I was caring for my younger siblings in a tough, dark situation. [on suffering through school] I always felt dumber than everybody else. I hated it. I hated being inside. I hated being behind a desk. School just kind of killed me. I think it gets so much easier to let things roll off your back. It's such a business of hurry up and wait, and if you let it get to you it will drive you absolutely insane. Like "Why was I called in at four in the morning and I haven't been used until one in the afternoon?". And "Why are we shooting this a million times when we have five other scenes to shoot?". But you get to the point where you just say "This is filmmaking. This is what you get paid for. Everybody is doing the best they can. It's what you have to live with.".

It's always been about the script and the director, for me. There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that. I like to adapt to a director's way of working. I love doing that. Each director is so different, and you have to adapt to this new way of doing something. That's what's amazing to me. That's why I love directors. I don't want the director to have to work around me. I think it's more fun for me to come in on their thing. [on her acting method] To you it looks emotionally straining, but I don't get emotionally drained, because I don't invest any of my real emotions. I don't take any of my characters' pain home with me, I don't even take it to craft services. I've never been through anything that my characters have been through. And I can't go around looking for roles that are exactly like my life. So I just use my imagination. If it ever came down to the point where, to make a part better, I had to lose a little bit of my sanity, I wouldn't do it.

I would just do comedies. [on owning her own bow and arrows] One time, I actually used it for defense. I pulled into my garage and I heard men in my house. And I was like "I'm not letting them take my stuff. I had just gotten back from training, so I had the bow and arrows in the back of my car. I went to my car and I put this quiver on me and I had my bow and I loaded it and I'm walking up the stairs. And I look, and my patio doors were open, and there were guys working right there, and I was like 'Hey, how you doin'?' They [her friends] were like 'We've got to stage someone to break into your house and you can kill them!' That would be the funniest news ever. Katniss Everdeen actually kills someone with a bow and arrow!". Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid. Everybody's like "How can you remain with a level head?". And I'm like "Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I'm making movies. It's stupid.".

[on meeting/being wowed by acting idols] Once I'm obsessed with somebody, I'm terrified of them instantly. I'm not scared of them - I'm scared of me and how I will react. Like, for instance, one time someone was introducing me to Bill Maher , and I saw Meryl Streep walk into the room, and I literally put my hand right in Bill Maher's face and said, "Not now, Bill!", and I just stared at Meryl Streep. [when asked if she met Meryl Streep] Of course not. I just creepily stared at her. [on the moral of The Poker House (2008)] Things can happen to you, but they don't have to happen to your soul. [on forgetting to thank Harvey Weinstein in her Best Actress acceptance speech at the 85th Academy Awards (2013)] It's been fun. I guess I'll never work again. [when asked in the Oscar Press Room, about what happened when she tripped on the stairs while accepting the award for Best Actress] Was that on purpose? Absolutely!... What do you mean what happened? Look at my dress!

I tried to walk up stairs in this dress, that's what happened. Yeah, I think I just stepped on the fabric and... they waxed the stairs. Don't worry about the bitches - that could be a good motto, because you come across people like that throughout your life. I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie. In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress. I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress that doesn't have anorexia rumors! I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I'm invincible. I don't want little girls to be like "Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner!". [on her dancing ability] I'm a horrible dancer!... I'm like a dad at prom... I look like Gumby getting electrocuted. As soon as somebody farts around me, I think it's hilarious. This is something my brothers did that now the boys at work are obsessed with. You cup it, and then you throw it in someone's face and say, "Take a bite out of that cheeseburger!".

The best birthday present I ever received was a T-shirt my friend had made that said "I passed out in Disneyland '07" (I had heat stroke in Disneyland). I am just a normal girl and a human being, and I haven't been in this long enough to feel like this is my new normal. I'm still getting used to everything. It still makes me a little emotional, just to see how quickly everything kind of changes -- that it changes so fast. [on mental illness] It's just so bizarre in this world; if you have asthma, you take asthma medicine. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medicine, but as soon as you have to take medication for your mind it's... there's such a stigma behind it. My parents saw me so truly happy that they sacrificed everything for my happiness. Without my family, I would be nothing. Maybe one day, I'll turn into an asshole. But there are too many out there already. [on fame] I'm from Kentucky. I used to be very personable and make eye contact and smile at people, and now all I do is look down.

When I'm at dinner and one person after another keeps interrupting to take pictures, it's like "I can't live like this.". [on being dubbed the "Sexiest Woman in the World" by FHM magazine] It's the lie heard around the world. I know the truth. I know Beyoncé is the queen of the world. [on Josh Hutcherson ] Whenever Josh is like "I don't think you should do it like that." And then I'm like "Oh, really? Do you wanna tell that to my Oscar?". [on her experiences on the set of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)] Everybody told me there were no spiders, so when I saw three, I started crying. Jungles are not easy when you're afraid of everything. I think I am a legitimate alcoholic. No, what's it called? An arachnophobic. [on politics] I was raised a Republican, but I just can't imagine supporting a party that doesn't support women's basic rights. It's 2015 and gay people can get married and we think that we've come so far, so, yay! But have we? I don't want to stay quiet about that stuff.

My view on the [2016 US presidential election] is pretty cut-and-dried: If Donald Trump is president of the United States, it will be the end of the world. And he's also the best thing to happen to the Democrats ever. I feel like I'm reacting as things are happening and growing and developing and you know, making mistakes is very helpful for that. But also having in mind; this is important for growing up; Is like, having in mind who you want to be. I want to be the kind of person who will say that thing that's really hard to say. That's really awkward and really difficult. One day I want to be able to just say it, and not make a joke and not try to make it cute, but to just say it. And I remember thinking that but not being able to do it. And then slowly developing and growing and eventually, and now I say all sorts of awkward things. Salary (11)

Question: In February 2013 Jennifer Lawrence won an Oscar for her role in which film?
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